Word: customs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tear-tugging to read the poetry of the displaced Palestinian. Also very interesting was the consensus at Rabat that the Arabs are again one nation. Strange, is it not? The "Arab nation" has unity of religion, custom, language and heritage, with billions of excess dollars and millions of square miles of unused land, and the only place a Palestinian Arab can feel at home is in "the orange groves of Jaffa...
...reforms stirred little controversy until Tombalbaye ordered the revival of an ancient pagan tribal custom known as Yondo, a grueling initiation rite practiced by the Sara tribal groups of southern Chad. The ordeal -Tombalbaye himself underwent it as an adolescent-is known to involve floggings, facial scarring, mock burials, drugging, and ingeniously gruesome tests of stamina, like crawling naked through a nest of termites. Tribesmen who have been raised in the bush do not always survive the ritual, which suggested that it is even more difficult for urbanized Chadians to endure. When Tombalbaye decreed that high government officials, regardless...
Scientists long suspected that polymers-macromolecules made up of chains of smaller molecules-might be custom-tailored to create an almost infinite variety of materials. Flory, who began his work 40 years ago as a member of the Du Pont research team that developed nylon, showed the way. He devised methods of analyzing and studying polymers that made it possible to develop new plastics and other synthetics on a systematic basis. He also found that there is a specific temperature (now known as the Flory temperature) at which each polymer exists in an ideal state for study of its properties...
...custody of the former President's tapes and papers was more arguable. A ruling by Attorney General William Saxbe that Nixon could claim them as personal possessions can still be challenged. While past Presidents dating back to Washington have laid claim to such documents, the practice is based on custom, not law. Why official papers produced at public expense ought to be considered private property has never been persuasively argued. Nixon's position, moreover, is unique. "I don't recall any criminal investigation being in progress at the time Washington gathered up his papers and left office," observed a G.O.P...
...prayers were not something special for that tumultuous day. The three men, plus former Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird, a Presbyterian, had been holding similar meetings weekly for three months, reviving a custom Ford, Laird and Quie had first begun in 1967. Quie says confidently that "we expect to continue," even with Ford in the White House-though the place and time will change...